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Shreyas Cholia
HPC Engineer, NERSC

Shreyas Cholia works on science gateway, web and grid technologies for NERSC, with the goal of making high-performance and distributed computing more transparent and accessible. He has also been involved in various grid and data-driven science efforts at NERSC since 2002. Prior to his appointment at NERSC, Shreyas was a developer and consultant at IBM. He has a bachelor’s degree from Rice University, where he double majored in Computer sciences and Cognitive Sciences.

RESTful HTTP web services have many advantages over the "big" web services paradigm of SOAP/WSDL/XML Schema. RESTful services are simpler to create, use, and test. REST/HTTP is native to the web, thus it's easy to digest these services from Javascript or a backend. NEWT is a RESTful web API to NERSC HPC resources, used by other scientific portals.
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